Thalassoma is a genus of wrasses native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Many species occasionally make their way into the aquarium trade.[3]
| Thalassoma | |
|---|---|
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| Saddle wrasse (T. duperrey) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Thalassoma Swainson, 1839 |
| Type species | |
| Scarus purpureus Forsskål, 1775[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]
- Thalassoma amblycephalum (Bleeker, 1856) (blunt-headed wrasse)
- Thalassoma ascensionis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (Ascension wrasse)
- Thalassoma ballieui (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) (blacktail wrasse)
- Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791) (bluehead wrasse)
- Thalassoma cupido (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) (Cupid wrasse)
- Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (saddle wrasse)
- Thalassoma genivittatum (Valenciennes, 1839) (red-cheek wrasse)
- Thalassoma grammaticum C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (sunset wrasse)
- Thalassoma hardwicke (J. W. Bennett, 1830) (sixbar wrasse)
- Thalassoma hebraicum (Lacépède, 1801) (goldbar wrasse)
- Thalassoma heiseri J. E. Randall & A. J. Edwards, 1984 (Pitcairn rainbow wrasse)
- Thalassoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1856) (Jansen's wrasse)
- Thalassoma loxum J. E. Randall & Mee, 1994 (Oman wrasse)
- Thalassoma lucasanum (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Cortez rainbow wrasse)
- Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) (moon wrasse)
- Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (yellow-brown wrasse)
- Thalassoma newtoni (Osório, 1891) (Newton's wrasse)
- Thalassoma nigrofasciatum J. E. Randall, 2003 (black-barred wrasse)
- Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) (Noronha wrasse)
- Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) (ornate wrasse)
- Thalassoma purpureum (Forsskål, 1775) (surge wrasse)
- Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (fivestripe wrasse)
- Thalassoma robertsoni G. R. Allen, 1995 (Robertson's rainbow wrasse)
- Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871) (Klunzinger's wrasse)
- Thalassoma sanctaehelenae (Valenciennes, 1839) (St. Helena wrasse)
- Thalassoma septemfasciata T. D. Scott, 1959 (Seven-banded wrasse)
- Thalassoma trilobatum (Lacépède, 1801) (Christmas wrasse)
- Thalassoma virens C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (Eastern Pacific emerald wrasse)